Fur

Grace Wells' second collection of poems is a sustained meditation on our relationship with nature, with the flora and especially the fauna with which we share this "astonishing world". The poems are "awed by howl and answer-/ by whatever it is that longing does / when it meets itself in the woods". But if the relationship can be an enabling one, allowing the poet to go beyond the limits of herself, to put seal "skin onto her back" and walk out "into darkness", it is also one that our unthin...